Star Sand By Roger Pulvers Kindle Edition Star Sand In 1958, a diary is found in a cave on the small Japanese island of Hatoma. Alongside it are the remains of three people. The journal reveals the story of Hiromi, a sixteen year old girl who’d grown up in the United States before living in Japan in the midst of World War II. One day, while collecting star sand—tiny star shaped fossils—Hiromi finds two army deserters hiding in the seaside cavern—one American, one Japanese. The soldiers don’t speak the same language, but they’ve reached an agreement based on a shared hope: to cause no harm and survive. Hiromi resolves to care for the men—feeding them and nursing their ailments—despite the risk that, if caught, she’ll die alongside them as a traitor. But when a fourth person joins in on their secret, they must face a threat from within. The diary abruptly ends, leaving everyone’s fate a mystery. Decades later, in 2011, a young female university student decides to finally determine who died in that cave and who lived. Her search will lead her to the lone survivor—and bring closure to a gripping tale of heroism at a time when committing to peace was the most dangerous act of all.

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A young female university student decides to finally determine who died in that cave and who lived Her search will lead her to the lone survivor and bring closure to a gripping tale of heroism at a time when committing to peace was the most dangerous act of all Star SandStar Sand by Roger Pulvers is a beautifully crafted novel that I had the pleasure of discovering as one of s Kindle First selections for this month The book s setting on the Japanese island of Hatoma was so atmospheric and painted pictures in my head of a beautiful young woman collecting sand underneath a starry sky while the ocean thrashed against the beach There was something about even just the descriptions of how Umeno would wrap food into banana leaves and place it in a furoshiki that I found to be captivating While I found many aspects of Pulvers writing in Star Sand to be beautiful.

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But it sounded so good but parts of the diary came across as tedious and unnecessary I finished the book a tad disappointed 206 I picked this book up because the idea and concept sounded so mysterious and interesting A diary from WWII written by a young Japanese woman hiding out in a cave with 2 wounded soldiers from both sides sounded like a great read Still does actually which is why I gave it 2 stars instead of one concept This book ended up being so slow and so uneventful and unsatisfying I usually read thrillers and mysteries and this was neither of those although recommended as one The narration throughout regardless of who is narrating was obnoxious.

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Roger Pulvers OAM born 4 May 1944 is an Australian playwright theatre director and translator He has published than 45 books in English and Japanese from novels to essays plays poetry and translations He has written prolifically for the stage and has seen his plays produced at major theatres in Japan Australia and in the U. Star Sand kindle store Pulvers has also directed widely in Australia and Japan both in English and Japanese He has written original scripts for radio documentaries and dramas that have been produced by ABC Australia as well as television scripts for NHK Japan and screenplays for feature films Wikipedia bioIn 1958 a diary is found in a cave on the small Japanese island of Hatoma Alongside it are the remains of three people The journal reveals the story of Hiromi a sixteen year old girl who d grown up in the United States before living in Japan in the midst of World War II One day while collecting star sand tiny star shaped fossils Hiromi finds two army deserters hiding in the seaside cavern one American one Japanese The soldiers don t speak the same language but they ve reached an agreement based on a shared hope to cause no harm and survive Hiromi resolves to care for the men feeding them and nursing their ailments despite the risk that if caught she ll die alongside them as a traitor But when a fourth person joins in on their secret they must face a threat from within The diary abruptly ends leaving everyone s fate a mystery Decades later in 2011 I must say that the true power of this book lies within its message of peace love and kindness in a time of war and hatred The idea of two enemy soldiers finding themselves at the mercy of each other as they both fight for survival is poetic and moving Their hunger for peace and compassion towards each other hit me right in the heart and made this book a memorable one I also enjoyed how the book skipped forward to 2011 as it made Umeno Bob and Takayasu that much tangible to me Sometimes it s easy to forget that so many of the brave men and women who survived the war are still alive and often times under my care as their nurse He was such a gentle soul All he wanted in life was to live it without hurting another person He said that if a person could do that then that person would find true happiness in life He accomplished that at a time when it was nearly an impossible thing to do. Book Star sandusky This book was an interesting concept of talking about WWII from the perspective of a Japanese American girl that was living in Japan when the war broke out The discovery of two AWOL soldiers one Japanese and one American promised to make this even interesting But the relationship between the two soldiers was weird and hard to believe the dialogue was stiff maybe because the book was translated from Japanese And this was supposed to be a diary who would actually write a diary with all that dialogue and some of the other details But still I had hope the end where a modern day student investigAtes the mystery of the cave it just seems rushed to come to conclusion Why did she dress the brother in her clothes What was the significance of throwing the cast in the ocean And what was the point of the star sand Definitely not the best book I ve read this year too bad because it had so much potential 206 This book has left me with very mixed feelings I ve put 3 stars on here but really it s a 3. Star sandal wakefield The first chapter totally pulled me in and I was hooked on the story pretty quickly I m a bit obsessed with books set in Asia at the moment and I ve always wanted to learn about World War 1 and 2 so this seemed like a perfect read. Star sandwell I absolutely loved part 1 Bob annoyed me a little but I still enjoyed his character just as I did the rest of the cast I loved the idea of the story 3 unlikely people being pushed together in an awful time and I was really starting to get into it Then it suddenly stopped and parts 2 and 3 just confused me I don t understand why Pulvers ruined a really deep interesting story with a ridiculously crap ending If he had continued Hiromi s story further and then ended it on a cliff hanger that would have been fine but it didn t finish at a point that made sense to me and I just didn t see the point of adding in the last 2 parts It sort of feels like he got bored of writing the story and wrote parts 2 and 3 just so the book had an ending I m devastated because I had been really pulled into the story I ve been left feeling very unsatisfied and incredibly disappointed 206 This was an odd short story the idea was promising and I found some descriptions of life on a remote Japanese Island during WW2 interesting however it seems to me the author run out of ideas on how to end it and spoilt it with a silly character introduced towards the end 206 What a disappointment. Book Star sandals Not that I had super high hopes for this in the first place but I was expecting it to be an interesting read And it was in parts At other times it was a chore to get through And that s saying something for a book that takes less than two hours to read. EBook Star sandisk It went steadily downhill until I just didn t care at the end For that reason I m breaking my review into three parts following the way that the book is divided Part OneI liked the idea of Part One It focuses on the people in the cave Bob the American deserter Iwabuchi the Japanese deserter and Hiromi the girl who stumbles across the both of them and brings them food and supplies It follows their unlikely friendship and even had some insightful moments There was no past present or future there was only beforewar time duringwar time and afterwar time and the three melded together like differently colored metals in an intense fire taking a shape when the fire cooled down until the heat rose once again and a new form of the same thing was created the making and remaking of time itself The book is very character driven with little exciting plot And that s okay I like that this is a WWII novel that doesn t spotlight the fighting or the actual war itself Rather it centers on the side effects of the war on the little bits and pieces that may go unnoticed in other novels This is a little cave on a small nearly uninhabited island and yet this cave holds two soldiers who are told they should be enemies and nevertheless find themselves bonding over shared experiences They re aided by a girl who is Japanese in heritage but American in birth there is no black and white here There s a lot of grey area and I like that this book showcases the emotional conflict that comes out of war rather than the physical. Book star san diego Part TwoThere isn t actually much to say about this part really it felt detached but not actually detached enough to be representative of a true field report Does that make sense I felt that it was there purely for the author to explain the bare facts of the situation That was certainly its purpose but I wish that it had been used in a subtle way. Stars and more Part ThreePart Three is where I really lost any good feelings I had toward this novel and just got angry From Hiroma s diary and the field report we are thrust into the head of Hosaka a girl I say girl because she certainly does not conduct herself like a young woman who is supposedly a rising senior in college and yet expresses herself like a 12 year old. Stars and time Take this for example I wasn t interested much in the war thing before I took Professor Shiroma s class and now he s going to be my supervisor next year That is just so cool The war thing Really As if it s a passing fad rather than a big event in which millions of lives were lost and millions were irrevocably changed. Star sandwell Reflecting on that makes me irritated and so I ll move on but let me give you some examples of our new narrator s immaturity such as that time she got something in the mail It was the first time ever that someone sent me a special delivery letter Or that time that one exclamation point just wasn t enough That s all okay for him but I hate economics Or that time that she threw a hissy fit about her boyfriend Who wants to go out with a TOTAL NERD LIKE YUTAKA As a 20 year old woman myself I cannot help but be extremely offended that this is how the author thinks we view things Contrary to his belief we do not feel the need to scream and shout about every little thing that happens and we are capable of feeling emotions and having complex thoughts like any other human being. Stars and time I know that s absolutely mind blowing to learn isn t it I get that some college students do behave in this way but I have a hard time believing that such a person would choose to write a thesis on a topic as serious as WWII In fact Hosaka only shows the emotions of an adult when she meets with Hiroma who is now an old woman Tears welled up in my eyes I felt like I really knew her so well already I guess I did because of the diary the diary that was written so long ago about Hatoma Isle Of course she then has to go and ruin it by using three exclamation points to express the fact that her eyes are blurry from crying. Starsand switch Final Rating 2 stars because Part One deserves than 1 206

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Beautifully written book of war WWII Asks the the questions of who is the enemy what makes an enemy and about survival 206 Source I downloaded this book via Kindle Unlimited Cost Free Title Star Sand Author Roger Pulvers Genre Realistic fiction historical Overall Rating 3 stars I wanted to rate this book higher but because I found myself getting bored at parts through this book I just couldn t This book follows Hiromi a 16 year old Japanese girl in WWII as she makes her way through the war with no family and barely any friends and she comes across a Japanese army deserter and an American soldier who have become unlikely allies She journals her adventures with them then after the war the diary is found along with three bodies but not Hiromi s herself This had such an brilliant premise unlikely to happen especially the student at the end Midway through I felt as if I was reading a novel intended for a younger audience There was so much innocence in a story that to me was extremely lacking in elements and depth I didn t even realize this was supposed to be a short story since it took me so long to get through 206 This is a lovely book about a girl on a small Japanese island in WWII She takes care of two soldiers one American and one Japanese who have deserted and are hiding in a cave on the island It was well written kept me captivated and I still wonder if it s a true story or not It s a quick read and very worth it 206 Star Sand By Roger Pulvers was my Kindle First pick for the month It was originally released last year in Japanese and will be out in English on 5 01 2016 For me this was a beautiful novella flowing seamlessly over the timespan of the story The chapters went together fluidly just the right pace to make a perfect story My one complaint is that it felt so very short I worked an eight hour shift today and still read the whole thing in one day I could not let it go It begins April 02 1945 on Hatoma Isle in Japan Umeno Hiromi is half Japanese half American Having followed her father back to Japan while her mother and brother stayed in Los Angeles she feels even torn apart by the war than others In the first part we view the world through her diary She is alone on the island unsure where her father is or if he is alive One day while collecting Star Sand from the beach she sees a man going toward the entrance of the cave with a gun pointed at his own head This is to be her first meeting with two men that will be everything to her in this part of her life Iwabuchi Takayasu a Japanese deserter and an American deserter named Bob Both are weak and sick though Bob than Takayasu Both are gentle spirits that are disgusted with the war Hidden in a cave on Hatoma Isle they rely on Takayasu s uncle and Hiromi to bring supplies and keep their secret When Uncle is in danger of being taken prisoner on minor charges keeping livestock he should have given up he leaves the trio alone to fend for themselves but not before throwing in one large complication Iwabuchi Hajime is Takayasu s older brother and completely different from the gentle soul He hates Takayasu and Hiromi for what he perceives as their crimes against Japan In gentle Bob he can only see the American enemy The four cannot exist together and it ends explosively with three bodies and a diary in a cave Part two is a post war report on the finding on Hatoma Isle By part three the date is December 12th 2011 A young college student is working on what she calls her Okinawa project Basically about how much was still unknown about Okinawa and how the war ravaged the lives of the people there Hosaka Shiho delves deep into the libraries and surfaces with the diary of a young girl Finding inconsistencies she brings them back to the experts and they find that The diary was written years after the incidents in the cave took place Shiho can t let these things go the diary was found in the cave with the bodies She has to find out what happened and how it got there The truth is unbelievable you have to read it to see Again this book isn t out in English until 05 01 2016 but you can have it now through Kindle First for 1. Stars and their life cycle stages 99 Don t let this one pass you by On the adult content scale I give it a two There is violence but this is a book I would hand anyone ten and above I don t feel it was meant to be a young adult novel but it works for both that genre and adult fiction 206.

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